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The '''Rucker Agee Collection of Maps of the Southeast''' is collection of 3,675 maps, 700 atlases and 2,533 related volumes held at the [[Linn-Henley Research Library]] of the [[Birmingham Public Library]]. The collection was initiated with a donation of over 600 maps and atlases and an endowment for acquisitions by Birmingham investment banker and collector [[Rucker Agee]] in [[1965]].

The collection has been exhibited many times since its first public exhibition in [[1955]], curated by Agee. The maps date from 1540 to the present. Highlights include a woodblock print dating to 1540 showing the discovery of America, several maps of territorial claims in the American south, a "holster atlas" carried by British officers during the American Revolution, the first geological map of Alabama ([[1849]]), a railroad map from just before the [[Civil War]], and several maps of Birmingham's industrial and physical development.

The collection, which continues to grow, is recognized as one of the finest municipal map archives in the United States.

==References==
* "Rucker Agee: The Man Behind the Maps." (November 2002) ''Birmingham Historical Society Newsletter.''

==External links==
* [http://alabamamaps.ua.edu AlabamaMaps] at the University of Alabama website

[[Category:Birmingham Public Library]]